About this Event
About the talk: Drawing on the tradition of historical geography, the speaker proposes a “geography of revolution” perspective, arguing that geography was not merely the stage on which the Chinese Communist Revolution unfolded, but a crucial condition for understanding both the revolution and the organization of the Chinese Communist Party. Bringing together insights from political, military, economic, cultural, and urban historical geography, the speaker draws on the China Historical GIS (CHGIS), documentary sources, fieldwork, and regional comparisons to examine the geopolitical flows that shaped the revolution, the shifting geographical centers of revolutionary activity between north and south, the relative rise of the west and decline of the east, mountainous revolutionary base areas, transportation networks through areas under Nationalist control, the geographical distribution of talent and Hakka communities, and urban revolutionary hubs. The talk also draws on theories of guerrilla warfare, military contracting, and basic economic regions to illuminate the spatial logic underlying the uneven development of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
About the Speaker: Ying Xing is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University, and a jointly appointed professor in the Department of Political Science. His research specialties include historical sociology, political sociology, and the study of the Chinese Communist Revolution. He is the author of The Story of Petitioning by Migrants from the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Morality and Politics in the History of Village Trials, “Qi” and the Politics of Resistance, and The Rise of the New Educational Field.
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C. K. Choi 120, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, Canada
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